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Right now it is also impossible to protect immunodeficient subjects, but herd immunity could help. I don't think the author ever says, "We should do this and on
by jseliger 7y ago
Right now it is also impossible to protect immunodeficient subjects, but herd immunity could help. I don't think the author ever says, "We should do this and only this in lieu of a vaccine."
The argument is, "This can be done now, or soon, while a vaccine will take 12 - 18 months, if not longer."
- carlob 7y agoIt's not quite the same ethically: for all of this to work you should make this attenuated virus spread faster than the more deadly ones, so there is a positive act to be made which goes directly against the Hippocratic oath (do no harm). Immunodepressed subjects right now are protected by isolation and by the fact that right now a smallish percentage of the general population is an asymptomatic carrier, if we were to start spreading this actively those variables would change.